A. Appel, '"Aan die Grobbelaarsrivier": vestigingsgeskiedenis van Oudtshoorn tot 1848 - \'n greep uit Oudtshoorn'
journal article · · consulted 2026-09-17
- Type
- journal article
- Repository
- Journal article, pp. 9-15, by Dr A. Appel, Vakkomitee Geskiedenis, Universiteit van Port Elizabeth; the journal title and year are not on the pages supplied [TO VERIFY]. Private copy: the private research folder/Appel-Oudtshoorn/
- Reference
- pp. 9-15; Tabel 1 (pioneer farms with R.L.R. references) p. 9; Tabel 2 (population by veldkornetskap, 1816 and 1824) p. 10
- Consulted
- 2026-09-17
The citation as it was given
[17 Sep 2026] Supplied by Frans as a 7-page scan (made This is the published article of the Appel whose D.Phil. thesis, 'Die distrik Oudtshoorn tot die tagtigerjare van die 19de eeu' (U.P.E., 1980), the Familiejoernaal blog cites (SRC-651). Copyright work: held privately, cited, not published. IT DOES NOT NAME LOUIS VAN WYK OR VERGELEGEN, nor Oude Muragie. The blog's 1760 and 1781 entries therefore rest on the thesis (its pp. 73-89 give fuller detail on the pioneer farms, per footnote 3) or on the loan farm registers themselves; they remain [TO VERIFY]. WHAT IT GIVES: (1) An analysis of 214 loan places issued between 1740 and 1791 east of Kogmanskloof and west of the Langkloof: 54% were occupied for only one to five years, and just over a quarter for more than ten. (2) Tabel 1, pioneer farms that were held long, from the Oude Wildschutte Boeke (R.L.R.): P. du Preez, Voorbedagt (Kango) 1759-1774, RLR 15 p. 207; J. Strydom, Kruisrivier (Kango) 1759-(1778), RLR 15 p. 175; H. Stern, Kombuis 1760-1786, RLR 16 pp. 72-73; C. Grobbelaar, Gango aan Doringrivier 1760-(1792), RLR 16 p. 47; G. Scheepers, Rietfontein (Kammanassie) 1762-1784, RLR 16 p. 295; S. Scheerer, Kruisrivier (Olifantsrivier) 1763-1780, RLR 18 p. 9; C. Schut (R. Campher), Hazenjacht 1763-1786, RLR 18 p. 58; O. Olivier, Armoed 1765-(1791), RLR 18 p. 349; O. Heyns, Groot-Doringrivier 1766-(1792), RLR 19 p. 126; J. Nortje, Rooiheuwel 1769-(1790), RLR 20 p. 172. (3) The George district was proclaimed 23 April 1811; before that the country between the Lange- and Swartberge fell under Swellendam, three to four days away by ox wagon. (4) Tabel 2, from the George opgaafrolle of 1816 and 1824 (cited as KA J.96 and J.104), gives white, Khoikhoi and slave population for the five 'agterbergse' veldkornetskappe: Attakwaskloof, Voor-Olifantsrivier, Bo-Olifantsrivier, Kango and Voor-Langkloof. NOTE the 1816 volume is cited as J.96, where the film's target card read by this project says J 97 (SRC-459) [TO VERIFY]. (5) Across the five wards in 1816: 646 700 vines, 136 leggers of wine and 78 of brandy, 4 342 mud of wheat - the setting for Terblans's 8500 vines on Modder Fontyn. (6) Nicolaas Venis, a bosschieter, taught Jacobus Scheepers's children in the Kango from October 1771 to December 1773 (citing Hoge); a Jacobus Scheepers witnessed the van Tonder estate of 1763 (SRC-654). (7) Ludolph Niepoth jr. was justice of the peace in Bo-Olifantsrivier by the 1840s; the first church on the Grobbelaars river was consecrated on 3 November 1839; Oudtshoorn was laid out on C.P. Rademeyer's Hartebeesrivier in 1847-1848.
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